I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right or wrong, hit or miss, renders conversation insipid and vulgar.

From reading too much, and sleeping too little, his brain dried up on him and he lost his judgment.

With life many things are remedied.

The bow cannot always stand bent, nor can human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation.

There is nothing costs less than civility.

Jealousy sees things always with magnifying glasses which make little things large, of dwarfs giants, of suspicions truths.

In short, virtue cannot live where envy reigns, nor liberality subsist with niggardliness.